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A review by isafacethemoon
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
4.0
We frequently wonder what we could be doing with the time we spend sleeping, if we didn't have to sleep. We couldn't be more wrong.
This book is a complete deconstruction of the mentality that sleeping is dispensable, or even associated with laziness, from a completely scientific perspective. I can't stress enough the importance of knowing at least this.
Although it will be doubtlessly a recurrent recommendation of mine, the book isn't perfect. I could enumerate some of the things I particularly didn't like, but I believe there is something more important worth mentioning.
I was expecting to read more detailed information about sleep in woman. Do woman need more sleep than man? Is there a correlation between the menstrual cycle and sleep need? Is pregnancy a period of higher sleep needs? Do oral contraceptives influence sleep? Although some may argue that there wasn't enough space to tackle every single issue on sleep, I'd argument that woman make up half of the population and bring to the world 100% of it; so I'd risk saying this theme is of great importance. Plus, if Matthew Walker considers it to be relevant to stress the importance of sleep on testicle size and testosterone production, why not on women health?
This book is a complete deconstruction of the mentality that sleeping is dispensable, or even associated with laziness, from a completely scientific perspective. I can't stress enough the importance of knowing at least this.
Although it will be doubtlessly a recurrent recommendation of mine, the book isn't perfect. I could enumerate some of the things I particularly didn't like, but I believe there is something more important worth mentioning.
I was expecting to read more detailed information about sleep in woman. Do woman need more sleep than man? Is there a correlation between the menstrual cycle and sleep need? Is pregnancy a period of higher sleep needs? Do oral contraceptives influence sleep? Although some may argue that there wasn't enough space to tackle every single issue on sleep, I'd argument that woman make up half of the population and bring to the world 100% of it; so I'd risk saying this theme is of great importance. Plus, if Matthew Walker considers it to be relevant to stress the importance of sleep on testicle size and testosterone production, why not on women health?